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Michael Avenatti claims Nike paid Zion Williamson’s mother to get him to Duke

Despite being charged with trying to extort more than 20 million dollars from Nike, lawyer Michael Avenatti has continued to make eye-opening allegations against the company on Twitter.

Friday evening Avenatti tweeted out perhaps his biggest bombshell yet when he accused the mother of soon-to-be top overall NBA Draft pick Zion Williamson of receiving payments from Nike in order to get the superstar to Duke.

.@DukeMBB - About this denial by Coach K the other day relating to payments by Nike...Can you please ask Zion Williamson’s mother - Sharonda Sampson - whether she was paid by @nike for bogus “consulting services” in 2016/17 as part of a Nike bribe to get Zion to go to Duke?